Hello again Ever After High Fans!
Aquila here. I got such a good response from all of you, around 120 views (spelltacular!), so I decided to post my next chapter. Thank you for all your support and keep reviewing. You can send me requests and prompts for any EAH ship too, and I'll be really charmed to do it for you.
Chapter 1
Apple White was in a fix.
Here she was, sitting outside her favourite cafe, the Hocus Latte, in the fableous village of Book End, with her BFFA Briar Beauty. They were sipping their favourite drinks and were surrounded by innumerable shopping bags. Usually, Apple would be rather reluctant to abandon school and go on a shopping spree with the fairytale world's biggest fashionista – Briar Beauty, but she needed something to distract her.
As of lately, the school was buzzing with news of Darling and Raven. They were the school's power couple, Briar Beauty's OTP for life as well as the most popular ship to have ever existed at Ever After High. They even had a name – Queen Charming. Every single romantic moment that they shared was immediately posted by Blondie on her mirror blog, and got like a zillion likes in the very next minute. Lizzie Hearts had started a line of Queen Charming merchandise too, the most fableous (according to Briar) was the wristband which had their logo – an intertwined sword and a purple feather, with the slogan – 'RQ + DC 4 ever after!'. And to make things even more worse, there was a brand new hair style introduced by Poppy in her hair salon. Fairytale characters could get their hair streaked in light blue and purple to commemorate Queen Charming. Holly had said that Poppy had never got so much business before! And it wasn't only Ever After High, the village of Book End and every other kingdom in the land (even Wonderland and the land of the giants), including her own, shipped Queen Charming.
Apple found it ridiculous, as well as heartbreaking.
After the incident at the castleteria, Apple had secretly hoped that no one would like them much. She thought that the others would whisper behind their backs and be rude to Darling because she preferred girls. That wish disappeared when the whole world decided to spellebrate it. Then, she thought that maybe Darling would be really awkward with Raven, like her humiliating date with Dexter, but no, Darling's every single action was incredibly romantic. Blondie's blog had stated that her recent polling to find out who was the most charming date had declared Darling as the winner, leaving her brother Daring in the dust. Even apple couldn't deny that.
So when Briar had so kindly invited her to go on a super hexiting shopping spree, Apple consented and thought that it would be a welcome distraction.
Little did she know that Briar was shopping for colour coordinated clothes.
With of course, light blue and purple colours.
Apparently, Blondie had introduced a new competition on her mirror blog to find out who was Queen Charming's greatest shipper.
And Briar was desperate to win.
"So you think I can do it?"
Apple pulled herself out of her depressing reverie of thoughts to pay attention to what Briar was yammering about.
"I mean, the outfit I have planned really portrays Queen Charming. At least, I think so. The blue chiffon skirt is sooo Darling. And that piece of antique armour was such a lucky find! Though that rusty breastplate and those shoulder pads look rather uncomfortable. I wonder how Darling wears it. All it needs is a coat of polish. I managed to get a silver collar with amethysts too, and a look alike of those killer boots Raven wears. I have an appointment with Poppy to get my hair dyed, and gods, that was a nightmare! There were so many people who wanted to get their hair streaked with Queen Charming, but I managed to pull a few favours with Holly to get mine booked first. Oh, and I made an awesome headdress with blue and purple feathers too. I think I got this completion in the bag. Cedar, Farrah and Maddie don't stand a chance. It's gonna be sooo spelltacular!"
Cedar spotted them and walked over.
"Did someone say I don't stand a chance? Well, guess what Briar, I finished making the most hexcellent poster with my new acrylics just a few minutes ago. I'm so gonna win this thing, no lie!"
Maddie appeared beside them and immediately started pulling out cups of tea out of her hat.
"Hey guys! You heard about Blondie's competish right? Well, I've made the most hatastic tea set in the entire history of hatastic tea sets. It has hand drawn fan art of Raven and Darling as well as this really cool thingamajig that shouts out "I ship Queen Charming!" I actually made it for Raven's birthday, and then I found out about Blondie's new competition so I thought I'd enter it for that instead. And even if I don't win it, Lizzie promised me she'd buy the patent for her new line of queen charming merchandise. Can you believe it?!"
"Wait a second, did you say RAVEN'S BIRTHDAY?!" asked Briar in a strangled voice.
"Yeah, it's on Nov 25th. Didn't you know?"
"No I didn't. We have to totally put a super spelltacular birthday bash! Oh my god, isn't Nov 25th in like, a week? WE HAVE SO LITTLE TIME !" yelled Briar.
"Did someone say birthday bash? Dibs on the music!" Melody said as she walked out of the cafe.
"And I'll totally help out with the singing!" cried out Meeshell.
Briar leapt onto the table and pulled out a piece of paper and began scribbling furiously.
"Ok guys, let's plan properly. Melody and Meeshell are in charge of the music. Ginger, will you take care of the food and refreshments? You know what Raven likes and your cooking's the best in the entire school. Holly, could you help her out? That would be awesome. Lizzie, Farrah and Ashlynn, you guys are in charge of the Raven's surprise party outfit. Bunny, Cupid could you do the decorations? I'll ask Blondie to take care of the invitations. Oh, and by the way, Raven can't know about this. It's gonna be a totally spelltacular surprise. Maddie and Cerise, I'm gonna need your help here. You two are Raven's best friends, so you have to distract her and do whatever it takes to keep her from knowing about this, ok? HAVE I MADE MYSELF CLEAR?!"
"Hey, what about me?" called out Cedar.
"I'm going to give you the most important job of all, Cedar. You have to make the present. Since you're so good at painting, I'm gonna ask you to paint a huge portrait of Darling and Raven together. You gotta make it look absolutely amazing. We'll put it in a really pretty frame so that Raven can hang it up on the wall and always be reminded of her wonderlandiful girlfriend." sighed Briar dreamily.
"Wait a splinter, should we let Darling know about this?"
"Yes of course. She knows Raven inside out. Maybe she'll have some hexcellent ideas that we could use. I'll talk to her later."
Everyone started moving away gradually. Ashlynn and Blondie were the only ones left with them.
"If this party doesn't prove that I'm the greatest shipper of Queen Charming, I don't know what else will." Said Briar, exhaustion clear in her voice.
"Well, there is plenty of really good stuff that people are submitting in. This competition is going to be the toughest one that I'm ever going to judge. But, as I'm the daughter of the one and only Goldilocks, it's guaranteed that I'll find the one which is just right! You know what; there are bazillions of people that have signed up for my blog just to see what the newest happening with Queen Charming is. My user's quota has gone up by 167%!" said Blondie happily.
"That's really good to hear, Blondie. I ship Queen Charming more than my affiliation with glass footwear!" giggled Ashlynn.
Apple's head was hurting. The last thing she needed was...
"Hey Briar! Could I talk to you for a sec?"
Speak of the devil.
Darling Charming.
Her ARCH NEMESIS.
"Sure Darling. Watcha want?"
"Um, you see, I wanted to get Raven some flowers, but they usually wilt in her presence, you know? So I thought I'd make her some silk roses, so that she could keep them forever after. And I thought, since you know a lot about roses and stuff, maybe you would consider helping me out?"
"OH MY GODS YES! I mean, sure Darling, what colours do you have in mind?"
Apple decided to leave before she broke something.
